Early Years Peer Review: The Home Learning Environment
The Foundation Years Trust Who are we?
The Foundation Years Trust Around 80% of the difference in how well children do at school depends on what happens outside the school gates. Rasbash et al, 2010
The Foundation Years Trust Definition of Home Learning Environment …refers to the learning environment children experience at home in the context of their family and community. Parents who engage in meaningful activities that encourage thinking and talking to stretch a child’s mind as part of everyday life can enhance their childs development significantly. Home Matters
The Foundation Years Trust Based on evidence, the activities that have the biggest impact are: Reading, sharing books and going to the library Going out on visits Playing with print (letters and numbers) Singing songs and nursery rhymes Drawing and painting (making meaningful marks) and Playing with friends HLE index, developed by Sylva & Melhuish, EPPE, 2004
The Foundation Years Trust So where’s the evidence? Desforges 2003 Sylva et al 2004 Gutman and Feinstein 2007 Evangelou et al 2008 Washbrook and Waldfogel 2010 Melhuish 2010 Save the Children 2013 Melhuish et al 2015
The Foundation Years Trust There is a gap, between common beliefs – that the aim of parental involvement is to get parents into school – and the findings in the literature – that the aim should be to increase engagement in the home. Goodall, 2018 Involvement vs Engagement
Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System to show how we aim to embed the HLE as part of the whole environment affecting a child’s development Shifting the early years Chronosystem paradigm and culture Influencing Policy Macrosystem Engaging wider community Exosystem stakeholders Strengthening Mesosystem Relationships Microsystem Working with families & health and nursery staff Child Child 4
The Foundation Years Trust Where does the Home Learning Environment fit in an early years system? • Whose business is it? Nursery staff Midwives Health visitors SALT Social workers, Family support workers, GPs etc… Parents, families and communities • Information dissemination
The Foundation Years Trust Barriers to embedding the Home Learning Environment Resources Competing priorities Lack of shared understanding and a shared vision Ability/willingness to engage with parents Preconceptions about what parents think Lack of partnership culture in early years
The Foundation Years Trust Evidencing the impact of HLE interventions • What evidence would you expect to see? • What we have learned in Wirral
The Foundation Years Trust Parent reporting questionnaires: 2016 - 2018 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 Average initial score Average final score
The Foundation Years Trust “I encourage my child to express himself while playing, reading, art, choosing food whilst out and about. I have a much better understanding of how he learns.” Parent
The Foundation Years Trust “I attended one social care meeting and Dad said: ‘ can I just say what you are doing in groups has transformed the relationship between [ mum and daughter ] – they talk all the time at home now ’. Mum suffers from severe mental health. Now she talks about her feelings and explains herself to her daughter. She keeps coming to the groups.” Teacher
The Foundation Years Trust Please watch our video: https://vimeo.com/339139167 Thank you!
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